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Chapter 282: Secret Sword: Kagutsuchi! The True Mystery of the Infinity Blade!
Sizzle—!!!
Vista violently stabbed the Mugenjin deep into the rock beneath his feet!
Then! Using the friction of the rock! He slashed upward with tremendous force!
Terrifying heat! Combined with the extreme compression of Armament Haki! And... the indomitable will of a Great Swordsman!
"Let me show you... the true secret of this sword!"
BOOM—!!!
The flames that were originally just wrapping around the blade suddenly shot into the sky like a volcanic eruption!
This was no ordinary fire! This was black-red hellfire capable of melting rock and evaporating steel!
"Secret Sword: Kagutsuchi!!!"
With Vista's roar, a massive tornado of fire, over ten meters in diameter, exploded from beneath his feet without warning!
The terrifying heatwave instantly swept through a hundred-meter radius! The air was sucked dry in an instant!
Even Onigumo's sure-kill Eight Sword Style was forcefully bounced away by the violent airflow the moment it hit the pillar of fire!
"What?!"
The savage grin on Onigumo's face froze instantly!
In his Transparent World, Vista, who had been clearly visible, was now completely swallowed by a mass of red energy that was violent to the extreme!
That wasn't muscle! That wasn't blood vessels! That was... an awakened Balrog!
"GET... AWAY FROM ME!!!"
Rumble—!!!
The fire tornado spun madly with the momentum to destroy everything! Wherever it passed, rock turned to magma! The ground became scorched earth!
Onigumo's speed, which he was so proud of, was completely useless in the face of this indiscriminate AOE attack!
Dodge? Where to dodge?! This was a full-map attack!
"Damn it!"
Onigumo could only grit his teeth, shielding his body with his eight swords and desperately activating the breathing technique within him!
"Total Concentration: Hardening!"
BANG!
The fire tornado slammed into him viciously! It was like being hit head-on by a high-speed train!
Onigumo was sent flying like a kite with a broken string! The Justice coat on his shoulders turned to ash instantly! His proud steel-needle long hair was scorched black and curled, emitting a pungent burnt smell!
Splash!
He smashed heavily into the sea hundreds of meters away, kicking up a sky full of mist!
Sizzle...
That was the sound of a superheated body boiling the water.
"Hah... Hah..."
The flames gradually dissipated.
Vista still stood in place. But the Mugenjin in his hand was now glowing red, like a branding iron just taken out of a forge. The webs of his hands had split open, dripping with blood.
But he smiled. He smiled with incredible relief!
"How was that... Can you see through... this fire from hell?"
Crash!
The sea exploded! A wretched figure leaped out of the water and landed on the beach.
Onigumo was soaked through, his skin covered in large patches of red burn marks. His chest and arms, in particular, were flayed open by the heat. His appearance was no better than Yasopp's had been!
But he didn't fall. The killing intent in those eyes became purer, crazier because of the pain!
"Good... Very good..."
Onigumo spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, staring dead at Vista. The sabers in his hands were slightly deformed from the high temperature, but he still gripped them tightly.
"Is this... a weapon worth 100 million Beri? It really is... thrilling!"
Opposite him, Vista swayed, barely managing to stay upright by leaning on his sword. The move "Kagutsuchi" had drained almost all his stamina. Coupled with the dozen cuts he had taken earlier, blood loss was making him dizzy.
A draw!
This battle, which had seemed one-sided, was forcefully leveled by a sword at the last moment!
Dead silence filled the arena. Everyone's mouths hung open as they watched the two blood-soaked men.
Shock! Unparalleled shock!
If Doberman instant-killing Yasopp showed them the strangeness of the new power, then this tragic slaughter completely made them understand the gold content of the word "Dungeon"!
Breathing Styles! Transparent World! Artifact Swords with innate skills!
These things... could truly cause a qualitative leap in a person's strength!
"It seems... the winner is hard to determine."
On the high ground, Red-Haired Shanks tipped his head back and took a swig of wine, light flashing in his eyes.
The sea wind howled, rolling up the sky full of black ash.
On the desert island, the terrifying heat that could melt rocks finally dissipated slowly. The two figures, looking like blood men, maintained their standoff.
Onigumo's proud long hair was now burnt to tatters, like weeds pulled out by a mischievous child. His body was covered in massive burns, red muscle tissue exposed and smoking. Yet, his eight sabers still guarded his chest tightly. Those bloodshot eyes, even at their limit, showed no turbidity—only a heart-palpitating clarity and coldness.
Opposite him, Vista was in no better shape. His signature gentleman's suit had long become strips of cloth hanging from his body. There were at least dozens of deep bone-deep cuts all over him. Blood flowed down his pant legs, pooling in the sand beneath his feet.
Although the flames on the crimson serrated sword Mugenjin had extinguished, it still radiated a heat distortion that made people dare not look directly at it.
"Hah... Hah..."
Both of their chests heaved violently, sounding like two broken bellows emitting an overwhelmed wheeze.
One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.
No one moved. No one spoke. Even the thousands of pirates and Marines onlookers held their breath. The whole world seemed to have pressed the pause button.
Until—
Clang!
A crisp metal impact sounded.
One of the sabers in Onigumo's hand finally slipped from his trembling fingertips and fell onto the rock.
Immediately after.
Thud!
The hawkish Vice Admiral, known for his toughness, looked as if all the bones had been extracted from his body. His knees went soft, and he knelt heavily on the ground!
His consciousness was blurring. The "Total Concentration Breathing: Constant" that forcibly overdrew the body's potential gave him terrifying power, but it also completely drained the last wisp of stamina from his body!
"Heh..."
Opposite him, Vista grinned, seemingly wanting to show a victorious smile. But the next second, his body swayed violently! He could only panic and prop himself up with the Mugenjin to avoid kneeling like Onigumo.
But his hand gripping the sword couldn't stop spasming wildly. The "Kagutsuchi" move was terrifyingly powerful, but its consumption of stamina and Haki was a bottomless pit!
Current him... let alone swinging a sword, even lifting a finger had become a luxury!
No winner. No loser.
On this scorched earth turned to glass, both men had fought to their last drop of blood.
A Draw!
This was a result everyone could see. And it was a result... that plunged the entire venue into a deathly silence.
"How... How could this be..."
In the crowd, someone's trembling voice broke the silence.
Immediately after, the suppressed atmosphere exploded like a bursting dam!
"Are you kidding me?!"
"A draw?!"
"That's Flower Sword Vista! The 5th Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates!"
"That's a Great Swordsman who can exchange blows with Hawk Eyes!"
"He actually tied with a Marine HQ Vice Admiral?!"
A pirate captain with a bounty of over 100 million clutched his head, his face full of disbelief.
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